Lord Robert Cecil addressed last Saturday the Conservative Association of
Oxford University, consisting chiefly of under- graduates, but partly also of Mr. Memel, in a speech explainin, how unworthy Mr. Gladstone was of the honour of representing the University, and how much better he as a systematic Conserva- tive could fill that post. Mr. Mansel appeared to agree with him, and said that Locke and William III. bad reformed Oxford Uni- versity into infidelity, and that now they were wanting to reform it into like infidelity. Probably the Conservative Professor has contributed more to any infidelity there may be in Oxford by his transcendental proofs that the finita can only at best receive hieroglyphic hints, not a personal revelation, from the Infinite, than any Liberal of them all. But the undergraduates took it all in, and cheered Lord Robert Cecil as their future representative with all the flaming Toryism of boyhood.
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